Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vodka Chaser. The film that made him famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
...Persian Room, part of Manhattan Hotel Plaza, is a kind of Metropolitan Musem for living canvases, where genteel singers, chiefly female. keep the blue-rinse and cufflinks crowd smoothly entertained through dinner, under a ceiling so high that the usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...
...Benjamin G. Ferris '40, Director of Environmental Health and Safety, who led the study of smoking and its effects, said yesterday that he "personally encourages students not to smoke." He said that his research over the past year has convinced him that smoking is definitely related to a number of diseases...
Dean Watson said yesterday that he is "opposed to releasing any statement from the Dean's Office dealing with smoking. I know of no move on our part to follow the Columbia example." The Columbia University Health Services last month posted warnings on all campus cigarette vending machines, warning that students should not smoke since it is detrimental to their health...
...smoking problem varies among communities, Ferris claimed. "The more intellectual tend to believe what they read on this subject and not smoke," he said. While the problem may not be as serious at Harvard as elsewhere, he feels that it is still serious here...